Rebels Release Two Spanish Journalists Kidnapped in Syria

Journalists Returned Home Aboard a Spanish Military Aircraft

By

David Román

Updated March 30, 2014 3:13 p.m. ET

MADRID—Two Spanish journalists kidnapped in September by an Islamist radical group while covering the conflict in Syria were released and sent home Sunday, saying they were well but offering no details of their 6½- month captivity.

Javier Espinosa, a Middle East correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, and Ricardo García Vilanova, a freelance photographer working with him, disappeared Sept. 16 in Raqqa, in northern Syria. El Mundo said they were kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, which...